Item 1. Rapelyea (various spellings) family genealogy and burial sites.

Item 2. Letter to Y. Pratt from “Bank Department Albany June 3, 1844”, unintelligible signature, thanking him for introducing a bill on banking, commending the Prattsville Bank and approving the nomination of J.K. Polk “with great favor”, though van Buren was his first choice.

Item 3. The Journal of Commerce, undated: “Important Bank Case, Superior Court. Solomon Allen and Moses Allen vs. the Merchant’s Bank”.

Item 4. Letter to Pratt from Archibald Bassett, Moderator, Lexington, Oct. 6, 1824, thanking him for $100. donation. Printed notice from Z. Pratt, Feb. 19, 1842, saying notice has been given to reduce Capital Stock in the Catskill Bank by $25,000. and he resigns his Directorship in objection.

Item 5. “The Act of Incorporation and By-Laws of the Sixpenny Savings Bank of the Empire City, together with a list of Officers and Trustees (including Zadock Pratt, President) passed June 4, 1853.

Item 6. Unattributed, May 1854: Comparative view of the Condition of the Banks in Different Sections of the Union in 1850-54. The Journal of Commerce, Jan. 5, 1850: Table of the Highest Amount of Bullion held by the Bank of England from 1796-1849. Unattributed undated: Report on U.S. Banks made to Congress by Secretary of the Treasury, January 1855. The Journal of Commerce, May 19, 1853: Condition of the Banks 1837, 1843, 1848, 1851 and projections for 1854. Unattributed, undated: Weekly average of New York City banks, Jan. 6 - March 3, 1854.

Item 7. Handwritten slip: 1833, Durham and Athens. 1834, Hunter and New Baltimore. 1835, Catskill and Coxsackie. 1836, Greenville and Prattsville. 1837, Lexington and Cairo. The Prattsville Advocate, Oct. 20, 1851: Quarterly Report of the Prattsville Bank. Unattributed, undated: Quarterly Statement of Prattsville Bank, Nov. 1, 1846.

Item 8. Deposit slip, May 1, 1840. This. B. Cooke deposited $10,200. to the credit of Z. Pratt. Unattributed, undated: “An Act to abolish the Office of Bank Commissioner & c., passed April 1, 1843. Reprint from the London Courier, Nov. 10, ?. Bills of Exchange. Unattributed, undated: “An Act supplementary to the Act to amend the several Acts respecting copy rights” approved June 30, 1834. Unattributed, undated: Abstract from the returns of Boston banks, made to the Secretary of State. Unattributed, undated: Statement of moneys in the U.S. Treasury, March 31, 1836. The Journal of Commerce, Sept. (illegible): Stockholders report, Bank of the U.S. Unattributed, undated: National debt and finances of Mexico, 1841. Albany Argus, Dec. 11, ?: General banking law. Unattributed, undated: “Discontent”. Unattributed, undated: Stock prices, Aug. 8 and Sept. 14, 1836. Phrenological Journal, 1869: “The Shiftless Poor”. Col. Pratt denied credit to a shoemaker who appeared before him Monday morning in a dirty short asking to buy leather on credit. Reprinted from the Concordia Intelligencer, undated: A man from Illinois sold his last load of corn at the landing in Natchez, called at the Planters Bank for payment. Unattributed, undated: The books for subscribers to the Tanners Bank will be opened on May 17th, 1831. The Journal of Commerce, undated: Barrows & Pitcher vs. David Leavitt, Pres. of the American Exchange Bank. The Boston Gazette, undated: Semi-annual Bank Dividends for various Boston banks, payable Oct. 6, 1834. The Boston Gazette, undated: Bank dividends payable. Unattributed, undated: Bankruptcy statistics.

Item 9. Letter to Hon. Z. Pratt from Dickinson A. Thompkins, Binghamton, July 19, 1851, asking advice on funding a tannery in Broome County. The National Intelligencer, undated: “History of Coins and Money”. Bank note, March 2, 1832. $10,000. deposited by Corso & Pratt to the credit of the Prattsville Bank. Bank note, Feb. 14, 1832. $200. payable to L. D. Hill by Z. Pratt. Unattributed, undated: Estimate of American stocks held abroad, principally in England. The New-York Times, May 6, 1861: Order from J. Meredith Reed, the Adjutant General, Albany: The 20th Regiment, commanded by Col. Geo. Pratt, now inn NYC, enroute to Washington, is now relieved of that duty and ordered to return to Kingston, where the various companies will return to their respective districts.

Item 10. Harper’s Weekly, December 24, 1864. The cover illustrates the Chief Justice of the U.S. Donated by Skip Marquit on Aug. 28, 2021.

Item 11. unattributed, undated clipping: Weights and Measures of a bushel of various grains and crops. Unattributed, undated: Greene Cry. Agricultural Society officers and members (including Pratt). The American Agriculturist, No. 152, undated, pp. 261-4, 293. Application of Manures, Early Fattening o0f Animals, Dark Stables, The Dairy. Unattributed, undated: “List of premiums adjudged by the Greene City. Agricultural Society at the Annual Fair held at Cairo, Oct. 1 & 2, 1857.”

Item 12. The Daily Register, New Haven, CT, Oct. 11, 1854: The State Fair. A shellwork vase by Mis Mary Hickok of Southbury, inscribed “The Constitution and the Union”, flanked with the names Isaac Toucey and C.M. Ingersoll, Senator and Rep. in Congress. The Country Gentleman, Albany, Oct. 3, 1859: Vol. XIV, No. 15.

Item 13. The Evangelical Almanack or Religious Monitor, 1825: Astronomical info, weather, Christian statistics, travel distances from Albany. An Educational Catechism designed to accompany The Farming and School Monitor by James Henry, Jr., New York, 1848.

Item 14. The Journal of Commerce, March 24, 1859: “The Sentence on the Savior”. The Home Journal, New York, Sept. 29, 1855: Mr. Heywood, House of Commons, moves to appoint a commission to prepare a plan for an official revision of the Bible. Unattributed, undated: The Salaries of the Archbishops and Bishops of England. Unattributed, undated: Property incomes for Trinity Church, NYC. Saturday Evening Post, undated: “True Religion”.

Item 15. The Republican, Nov. 29, 1854: Pratt donated a bell to the Samsonville Reformed Dutch Church. Resolution of the Consistory of the Reformed Dutch Church of Samsonville thanking Pratt for his bel donation, by order of the Consistory, Samuel Harlow, President. The Christian Intelligencer, New York, Nov. 3, 1854: The Presentation of a Bell. Albany Argus, Dec. 9, 1854: A generous donation. Recorder & Democrat, Catskill, Jan. 4, 1855: Pratt presented a bell to the Samsonville Reformed Dutch Church. Recorder & Democrat, Sept. 20, 1855: Pratt presented his experience as a tanner in a Samsonville speech. “Were Zadock to turn his attention to the pulpit - as thing not altogether improbable - his exhortations, instead of smelling of brimstone, would smell of nothing but everlasting leather”. Christian Intelligencer, Nov. 16, 1854: Presentation of a bell. The American Eagle, Catskill, Sept. 8, 1855: Pratt describes his leather business in Samsonville speech. The Republican, Nov. 239, 1854: A generous donation (two copies).

Item 16. Rev. Jonathan M. Wainwright, D.D, for Provisional Bishop. Handwritten note: voted this ticket, Z. Pratt, delegate, from 1852, Grace Church, NYC.

Item 17. Indenture for Schoharie Turnpike stock in the amount of $1000.00, dated Nov. 22, 1834.

Item 18. Letter from President Millard Fillmore to Pratt, Jan. 17, 1851 acknowledging his suggestion to send two Topographical Corps to the London World’s Fair and referred it to the Secretary of War.

Item 19. Letter from B.P. Johnson to Pratt, June 18, 1851, acknowledging inclusion of Pratt’s leather in the London World’s Fair. The Telegraph, Saugerties, Sept. 28, 1850: “The Industrial Exhibition of 1852”. A committee was formed on June 11, 1850 at the Mechanics Institute, 105 Bowery, NYC to explore holding an exhibition in NYC in 1852 like that to be held in London next year. Unattributed, undated: Prize Ode for the Re-inauguration of the Crystal Palace in NYC by William Ross Wallace to be sung May 4, 1854.

Item 20. Letter from J.B. Moore to Pratt, Oct. 14, 1851, describing his life in San Francisco, the Gold Rush and CA agriculture.

Item 21. Printed broadside: Industrial Exhibition in London, May 1, 1851. Items selected by “the local committee for the State of New York” for inclusion in the exhibit, dated Dec. 8, 1850, signed by Luther Bredish, Chairman ands B.P, Johnson, Secretary.

Item 22. Sacramento Daily Union, Jan. 20, 1860: Annual Session of the State Agricultural Society. Z. Pratt invited to remain in attendance during the session. The Catskill Messenger, undated: Pratt delivered an address to the Agricultural Society. Unattributed, undated: State Poultry Exhibition. The Catskill Messenger, Sept. 27, 1845: Agricultural Fair in Cairo, Sept. 23-4. A painting of Prattsville by Jas. Gregory was exhibited and pronounced “very correct in its details… It represents a well arranged and handsome village, such as we have heard describes this proud evidence of the perseverance, good taste and munificence of its founder, the Hon. Zadock Pratt.”

Item 23. Unattributed, undated: “An Enterprising Farmer - Valuable Stock.” Burton G. Morss, Esq. of Prattsville imported three choice Alderney cows and a bull three years ago, has taken the Premium for milk and butter at three state fairs.

Item 24. The Central New Yorker, Syracuse, Sept. 29, 1853: The correspondent called Friday evening on Judge Campbell and Z. Pratt, known the world over as the Patron of American enterprise and the mechanical arts. He resides, at present, in a splendid mansion on 5th Avenue, which he has presented to his daughter. In his library we observed specimens of Italian sculpture and other objects of interest from various European countries equal to anything we saw in the Crystal Palace.” Freeman’s Journal, Cooperstown, Nov. 1850: “Green (sic.) County Agricultural Fair.” Unattributed, undated: Extract from a letter by Mr. Riddle, American Agent at the World’s Fair. The National Democrat and Morning Star, New York, Feb. 17, 1853: Pratt was awarded medals and diplomas signed by Prince Albert. The Dundee Record, Yates Cty., Oct. 6, 1852: “Haters County Fair to be held at Dundee, Oct. 13-14.” The Dundee Record, Yates Cty., Oct. 29, 1852: “The Fair”, address by Pratt. Unattributed, undated: Praise for Pratt, signed “J.D.H.” Unattributed, Feb. 11, 1853: Letter of praise to C.H. McCormick, “the inventor of the American Reaper”, signed by President Millard Fillmore and Peter Force. Later mention of Pratt’s medal , diplomas and bound volume of jury reports from the London Fair. The Evening Mirror, New York, Jan. 27, 1851: Pratt packing three sides of sole leather t to ship to the London Fair. Unattributed, Feb. 10, 1853: Description of Pratt’s London Fair medals. Unattributed, Feb. 11, 1853: Reprint of above. New-York Tribune, undated: Reprint of above. The National Intelligencer, Washington, DC, undated: Reprint of above. Unattributed undated: “The Great Exhibition. Gross Receipts and Liabilities.”